[1] It is situated adjacent to both Discovery World and Henry Maier Festival Park.

[2][3] It is the only urban state park in Wisconsin and features restored prairie and a pebble beach.

[1][3] The park features a fishing pier overlooking a basin, on the side opposite Lake Michigan.

[2][4] The park itself is perched atop an artificial bed of limestone rock material removed from the Deep Tunnel Project in the 1980s.

It was set aside for "public use and enjoyment" by Milwaukee mayor John Norquist in October 1991, 16 years before becoming a state park.